The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-19
TWO WIVES IN ONE HOUSE.
1EESTERDAY'S SOCIAL SENSATION IN
MORRISTOWN.
A Woman Who Went 10 a Boarding
House 10 Caution n Wife 20 Look Out
for Her Husband and Herself-Tears
Eutreaties.

! House TO Canton "A Wife TO Look Out
for Her Husband and Herself-Tears
Eutreaties.
MoRRIsTowN. June 18.-[SPEcIAL lone
5of the most remarkable scandals in the
annals of history has developed within the
past week in boarding house located on
Morris street, not far from Spring street,
lin this town. About month ago the
\ boarding house referred to was visited by
J3ne Melville @. Robinson, his wife and
Dtheir four-year- son, and they engaged
room on the third story. The only other
bedroom on the same floor is occupied by
a young Morristown gentleman. Robinson
is one of the partners of Broome street,
New York, stationery establishment. When
he engaged board both he and Mrs. Rob-
inson told the boar ding house mistress that
Mr.. Robinson, who is not in very robust
health, had been advised by his physician
to go to Morristown, and that he had but
recently arrived from. the South, where he
had spent two months in search of renewed
health. They came to their new abode on
Monday. and during the first week the
husband only showed up at home twice,
and then late at night, and the first Sun
day was p ssed by the wife and son with
Robinson told the other boarders in the
house that her husband was detained at
the Office till late at night. They
had not been in the house more
than a week before the other boarders
began to suspect that allwas not serene be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson, for although
she referred to him in the kindliest tones
and treated him as any good wife should
treat good husband, he seemed to be IN
easy in her company and treated hers with
the most rentdindlfference, Things
went on in this way for some three weeks,
his wife meantime having frequently ex-
pressed the wish that her spouse would
get through his alleged~rush of business
and come home more regularly and at more
seasonable hours IN order that his health
might be benefited.
Yesterday week, new boarder, who also
said she was a Mrs. Robinson, Ell gAged board
at the house. Her story was that she had
been married year and that her husband
had gone to Europe on three months
business trip. Immediately after her ar
rival she began to bemoan the fact of her
three months separation from her darling
and much of the time was spent in weeping
silently. She could not eat, neither could
she sleep. and she did not know how she
would be able to stand it. When Robinson
l61l Ing uOuS6 Oh DdtuTQdy l9
told his wife that he was going to see the
ball game at the Polo Grounds in the after
noon with his partners, and in the evening
he thought he would go to the theatre and
come home on the midnight train. But
Saturday afternoon found him home
earlier than he had ever been be-
fore. Meantime quite an intimacy
had sprung up between the two women
With the rising of the sun on Sunday
morning beautiful day was ushered in.
After breakfast Mrs. Robinson No. 2
started out for walk. 1t was not very
many minutes before Mr.. Robinson start
ed out, he said, to get some writing paper.
No. returned to the house about noon,
but the dinner hour arrived before the
man. Dinner waited on him about tf
teen minutes anu then he came home
Mrs. Robinson casually asked No. if she
had seen Mr.. Robinson while she was out.
She replied that she had not Robinson
avoided Lis wife more all day Sunday than
he ever had before, and the two women
spent much of the afternoon in each
Others company. Monday morning came
and No. 2, who had told Mrs. Robinson
that her husband would stand watching,
said she was going to New York in the ex-
pectation of finding out something for his
wife about his Irritation with a G, rtain res
tauranI Whltress. NO. anu MI. hoDlnsOn
boarded the 1855 train for New York to-
gether, be assisting her on the train in the
most affectionate manner. Monday,
Tuesday, "Wednesday and Thursday
night OF the past week found Robin
son home, something unknown before.
Tuesday morning, Mrs. Robinson No.
was out of the house at 6 o'clock Rob
inson went out few minutes later and
his wife followed him. He went up to the
Square, spied his wife, and returned to the
house. He didn't meet No. that morn
ing. Tuesday night, with the stoop full of
people and his wife at his side, he held
whispered conversation with No. 2, which
lasted ten minutes. His wife spoke to him.
He turned his head away without reply.